Lunar rover - Wikipedia
A lunar rover or Moon rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon. The Apollo program 's Lunar Roving Vehicle was driven on the Moon by members of three American crews, Apollo 15 , 16 , and 17 .
New Commercial Artemis Moon Rovers Undergo Testing at NASA
Dec 18, 2024 · As part of an ongoing year-long feasibility study, each company delivered a static mockup of their vehicle to Johnson at the end of September, initiated rover testing in October and completed the first round of testing in December inside the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) test facility. Lunar surface gravity is one-sixth of what ...
Rover and Instruments - Science@NASA
VIPER is NASA's first rover with headlights – a system specially designed to work with its cameras in the Moon’s extreme conditions of light and dark. VIPER's camera system will allow operators on Earth to visualize the terrain the rover needs to navigate and send commands in near-real time based on what they see – where and how fast to ...
Lunar Roving Vehicle - Wikipedia
The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle is a battery electric vehicle designed to operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the Moon and to be capable of traversing the lunar surface, allowing the Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their surface extravehicular activities.
Meet Endurance, a pioneering NASA moon rover designed to …
Dec 17, 2024 · NASA has begun blueprinting the Endurance rover to traverse the gigantic South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, a lunar wonderland of promising geological surprises. Endurance would be an unprecedented...
NASA selects three companies to advance Artemis lunar rover …
Apr 3, 2024 · CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — NASA has selected three companies to work on lunar rover concepts that would be offered as a service for Artemis lunar landings and scientific activities. NASA announced...
First rover with headlights: VIPER will explore inside dark craters where the Sun never reaches, making it the first NASA rover to need headlights. However, rover engineers face a brand-new challenge in building a lighting-plus-camera system to operate in the Moon's harsh temperatures and extreme conditions of light and dark.
The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle - NSSDCA
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was an electric vehicle designed to operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the Moon and to be capable of traversing the lunar surface, allowing the Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their surface extravehicular activities.
Artemis Moon Rover’s Wheels are Ready to Roll - NASA
Jan 6, 2022 · A wheel from NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is run through endurance testing in a test bed containing lunar soil simulant and some of the most Moon-like rocks on Earth, at ProtoInnovations in Pittsburgh.
NASA’s Network of Small Moon-Bound Rovers Is Ready to Roll
Mar 7, 2024 · Part of NASA’s CADRE technology demonstration, three small rovers that will explore the Moon together show off their ability to drive as a team autonomously – without explicit commands from engineers – during a test in a clean room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in December 2023.